MISRECKONING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A mistake in calculating

Synonyms:

miscalculation; misestimation; misreckoning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("misreckoning" is a kind of...):

error; fault; mistake (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "misreckoning"):

backfire; boomerang (a miscalculation that recoils on its maker)

rounding; rounding error ((mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals)

truncation error ((mathematics) a miscalculation that results from cutting off a numerical calculation before it is finished)